Open source Mamba 3 arrives to surpass Transformer architecture with nearly 4% improved language modeling, reduced latency

The generative AI era began for most people with the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in late 2022, but the underlying technology — the "Transformer" neural network architecture that allows AI models to weigh the importance of different words in a sentence (or pixels in an image) differently and train on information in parallel — dates back to Google's seminal 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need."Yet while Transformers …